Nuh (Haryana): The district authorities on Saturday morning launched an anti-encroachment drive and razed down over 45 “illegal” shops at the Nalhar road area in Haryana’s Nuh district days after incidents of violence, which claimed the lives of six people including two home guards.
A team from the enforcement wing of district administration led by the local SDM and town planning department officials reached the market area near SHKM Government Medical College on Nalhar Road and started the removal drive with the help of multiple earth-moving machines and workers.
Police said the houses either belong to the suspects or were used by them for pelting stones, storing weapons, and firing at Hindu devotees who were returning from a Shiva temple in Nalhar after offering prayers.
Nuh deputy commissioner Prashant Panwar on Friday said they received orders from Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to take action against illegal constructions and also anti-social elements involved in the violence.
“Anti-social activities will not be tolerated in the district under any circumstance. Strict action will be taken against those who will try to disrupt peace and harmony. We are keeping a strict vigil on those involved in illegal construction and anti-social activities,”he said.
Officials said they have launched a campaign against illegal construction, anti-social elements and encroachers and a five acre plot that belonged to the forest department behind Nalhar Shiva temple was cleared of encroachments.